Charles H. Coolidge

Charles H. Coolidge, purchasing agent for the Dade Coal
Company of Cole City, Dade Co., Ga., is a native of Maine where
he was reared and educated. In 1868 he went to Chicago and
engaged in the grain trade, in which business he remained until
January 1, 1884, when he came to Chattanooga, and accepted his
present position. In 1870 he married Miss Ella Parlin, also a
native of Maine, and this union resulted in the birth of four
children. The above company was organized in 1870, with $500,000
capital. They employ 500 Georgia convicts and 200 free laborers,
and have an output of about fifty car loads of coal per day. Mr.
Coolidge's parents, Elisha and Hattie (Bayes) Coolidge, were
both natives of Maine, and died in the same State in 1862 and
1877, respectively. They were honest and well respected
citizens.